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In the first general election since Shelby County v. Holder (2013), restrictive voting rules in place in jurisdictions previously covered for preclearance by the Department of Justice might have played a role in the election results.

Once installed, Sessions would be ideally positioned to help transform Trump's central campaign slogan -- "Make America Great Again" -- into its actual intended objective of making the nation "white" again.

Ninety-six years after women won the right to vote, the first ever female presidential nominee of a major political party has a solid chance of winning her place in the oval office. I just voted for Hillary Clinton.

Our lives and our families matter. This election, we can't stay home, nor can we vote solely for the top of the ticket. We must go to the polls, vote all the way down ballot, including local races. We must vote like our lives depend on it.

Currently, there are 6.1 million voters who are disenfranchised because of a felony conviction. That number is more than five times greater than in the 1970s and almost twice as great as the number of disenfranchised voters in the late 1990s.

Just two days before the final presidential debate, when Donald Trump shocked the country by refusing to accept the outcome of the vote in advance, he offered a preview of this corrosive rhetoric in our home state.